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Block’s Proto Mining Hardware Gets A Smaller Entry Point With Sazmining

Block’s Proto Mining Hardware Gets A Smaller Entry Point With Sazmining

TL;DR: Sazmining is offering individual Proto immersion hashboards at $4,187 each, with financing and managed hosting. The arrangement lowers the upfront hardware purchase but does not remove Bitcoin mining‘s ongoing costs or profitability risk. Buying into industrial Bitcoin mining usually means dealing with noisy equipment, electricity contracts and cooling infrastructure. A new offering built around […]

Bitcoin : krach de l’IA ou superabondance, Bitwise ne voit qu’un seul gagnant

Trois chemins, une seule destination. Matt Hougan, directeur des investissements de Bitwise, a envoyé une note à ses clients. Elle déroule trois trajectoires pour l’économie américaine, selon le sort réservé à l’intelligence artificielle. Or, dans les trois cas, il voit Bitcoin terminer plus haut. L’exercice n’a rien d’académique pour les investisseurs. En effet, les quatre […]

Tokenized Stocks Reach $262 Million In DeFi, But The Growth Is Not All On Base

Tokenized Stocks Reach $262 Million In DeFi, But The Growth Is Not All On Base

TL;DR: Stock-linked tokens deployed in DeFi reached an estimated $262.4 million across blockchains at the end of September, up nearly 18-fold from the start of 2026. Base accounted for about $16 million, not the entire total. Tokenized stocks are starting to do more than sit in digital wallets. A September 30 snapshot put approximately $262.4 […]

Bitcoin’s Quantum Transition Won’t Stop at Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s Quantum Transition Won’t Stop at Bitcoin

HONG KONG, October 18, 2026 – As quantum computing advances, the challenge extends beyond Bitcoin’s cryptography to the financial infrastructure built around it. Quantum computing is emerging as one of Bitcoin’s long-term security challenges. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could theoretically compromise the digital signatures protecting Bitcoin transactions, potentially exposing funds associated with vulnerable public […]

DSA Joins Nacha Payments Innovation Alliance Fall Meeting to Discuss the Future of Digital Payments

DSA Joins Nacha Payments Innovation Alliance Fall Meeting to Discuss the Future of Digital Payments

Washington, D.C., October 18, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research, and education related to emerging technologies, participated in Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance Fall Meeting, where DSA Senior Policy Advisor Molly Woodman joined industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and the […]

JUST Completes 5th JST Buyback & Burn: Over 170M Tokens (~$23.53M) Burned Ahead of Major Deflationary Upgrade

JUST Completes 5th JST Buyback & Burn: Over 170M Tokens (~$23.53M) Burned Ahead of Major Deflationary Upgrade

Over the past year, JUST has completed five consecutive large-scale buyback-and-burn rounds, permanently removing 1.88B JST tokens from circulation and pushing cumulative deflation toward 19%. Following this milestone, the buyback and burn mechanism is set to undergo a comprehensive upgrade.   On October 17, JUST, the leading DeFi infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, announced the […]

BitTorrent Ushers in Next-Gen Web3 Infrastructure with Strategic Rebrand and Inaugural BTT Burn

BitTorrent Ushers in Next-Gen Web3 Infrastructure with Strategic Rebrand and Inaugural BTT Burn

The first round of BTT repurchased with decentralized service revenue has been completely burned, as BitTorrent leverages its reimagined architecture to pivot toward Web3 and AI infrastructure.    BitTorrent, a cornerstone of decentralized infrastructure in the TRON ecosystem, entered a new phase of growth driven by dual engines: the rollout of its long-term BTT buyback-and-burn […]

Fidelity Sees A Stronger Solana Network, With Concentration Risks Still In View

Fidelity Sees A Stronger Solana Network, With Concentration Risks Still In View

TL;DR: Fidelity’s technology research team says Solana has operated for more than two years without a major mainnet outage, while maintaining roughly 99.7% vote success. It also warns that validator and infrastructure concentration remain important concerns. Solana’s reputation was once shaped by how often the network stopped. A new assessment from Fidelity’s Center for Applied […]

Bitcoin : les États-Unis redeviennent importateurs nets, les particuliers vendent aux institutions

Le bitcoin entre, le dollar sort. Chainalysis a publié le 14 octobre le volet Amérique du Nord de son rapport « Geography of Cryptocurrency 2026 ». Sur douze mois, la région a reçu 3 020 milliards de dollars de valeur on-chain, en recul de 1,9 %. Mais derrière ce chiffre en demi-teinte se cache une […]

Aave’s Native Bitcoin Plan Moves Forward, But Governance Has Questions

Aave’s Native Bitcoin Plan Moves Forward, But Governance Has Questions

TL;DR: Babylon Labs has advanced a proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 without requiring wrapped BTC or a central custodian. The plan still faces community review, risk analysis and governance votes. Bitcoin could become collateral for Aave loans without first being handed to a custodian or converted into a freely traded wrapped […]

Robinhood Chain Now Accounts For More Than Half Of Uniswap Revenue

Robinhood Chain Now Accounts For More Than Half Of Uniswap Revenue

TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing about 53% of the total. Tokenized-stock trading is changing where the exchange earns its fees. Uniswap’s strongest reported revenue month has come from an unexpected direction: a relatively new network associated with a mainstream brokerage. September protocol revenue reached approximately […]

BoursoBank et Revolut écrasent le classement 2026 des applis bancaires, et la crypto fait la différence

Un Belge, une néobanque et une filiale de la Société Générale. Voilà le podium. Le neuvième benchmark international de Sia a passé 146 applications bancaires au crible dans 20 pays et sur plus de 100 critères. Publication le 1er octobre, reprise par MoneyVox le 8. KBC garde la couronne mondiale. Revolut grimpe au deuxième rang […]

Binance Pool To Close November 10, Giving Bitcoin Miners Weeks To Move

Binance Pool To Close November 10, Giving Bitcoin Miners Weeks To Move

TL;DR: Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services at 07:00 UTC on November 10, 2026. Miners must redirect their machines before the shutdown to avoid an interruption in mining activity. Bitcoin miners connected to Binance Pool have a firm deadline: November 10. The exchange announced on October 13 that its mining pool, along […]

XRP ETFs End 13-Week Inflow Run With $1.84 Million In Withdrawals

XRP ETFs End 13-Week Inflow Run With $1.84 Million In Withdrawals

TL;DR: US spot XRP ETFs recorded a $1.84 million net weekly outflow, ending 13 consecutive positive weeks. The reversal was small relative to the roughly $1.8 billion the products have attracted over time. Thirteen straight weeks of positive flows into XRP exchange-traded funds have come to an end. US-listed spot XRP products finished the October […]

Politique et lobby crypto : Tether aurait payé 6,3 millions à l’architecte du GENIUS Act

Un tiers de Nxum, et un bureau à la Maison Blanche. D’après le Wall Street Journal, Tether a versé environ 6,3 millions de dollars nets à Nxum, le cabinet de Bo Hines. Ce cabinet de conseil, il l’a fondé avec son père et un associé. Or, au même moment, il dirigeait le conseil présidentiel sur […]

Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Slips To $7.68 Billion As Traders Keep Funding Positive

Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Slips To $7.68 Billion As Traders Keep Funding Positive

TL;DR: A Saturday derivatives snapshot showed Bitcoin open interest at $7.68 billion, down 0.69% in 24 hours. Funding remained positive, but the data does not establish that traders have finished reducing leverage. Bitcoin‘s derivatives market is heading through the weekend with slightly less leverage outstanding, though not with an outright bearish positioning signal. A market […]

Ethereum ETFs Lose $320 Million In A Week As Bitcoin Outflows Slow

Ethereum ETFs Lose $320 Million In A Week As Bitcoin Outflows Slow

TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs lost $320.1 million in the week ending October 16, more than the $228.4 million withdrawn from Bitcoin funds. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for nearly all of the Ether redemptions. Ethereum investment funds have ended another difficult week on the wrong side of the ledger. US spot Ether ETFs recorded $320.1 million […]

OKX Europe en 2026 : 7 bonnes raisons de migrer vers cet exchange agréé MiCA

Depuis l’entrée en vigueur complète du règlement MiCA le 1er juillet 2026, le paysage des plateformes crypto en Europe a été profondément remanié. Seuls les acteurs dûment agréés peuvent désormais servir les clients européens, et OKX fait figure de pionnier en la matière. En effet, la plateforme a été l’une des toutes premières à décrocher […]